Victoria Moran Quotes
Vivisection is the killing of animals to find cures for the diseases caused by eating animals.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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Oh my God, I'm a walking advertisement for discounted shopping.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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There always have been funny women.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and home.
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I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.
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Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.
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But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.
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I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.
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For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.
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I started performing when I was 9 or 10, doing magic.
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The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.
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Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms.
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Vivisection is the killing of animals to find cures for the diseases caused by eating animals.
